Me came to that go very cool. You were alive in the sun and newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington well, roughly 87 of totality. We are just hours away from a Where Were You event the Solar Eclipse of 2020 for some 32 million americans will be in these socalled Path Of Totality this afternoon. That means from texas to maine, they will be plunged into darkness when the moon blocks out the sun for about four minutes. But if youre not lucky enough to the, in this narrow band dont worry, 99 of americans will see at least a partial eclipse. And this reminder, of course, be sure to wear those special Eclipse Glasses to avoid permanently damaging your eyes. Todays Celestial Wonder will be a site to savor. It will be another 20 years before the next total Solar Eclipse is visible. In the contiguous United States, were covering all the angles of this rare bent, including in the studio. And here, i mean, i dont know if we can take this shot for just a second here, but look at the set that are wonderful tech teams have put together here in washington, it is marvelous, but in the meantime, weve got a team out there in the field as well. Of course, cnns rosa flores and Stephanie Elam are in the Totality Zone and meteorologist Allison Chinchar will show us where weather could compromise the view. But lets begin this hour with cnns rosa flores and carville, texas rosa, im sure theyre getting excited out there. You got at your glasses. Ive got mine because we are doing sort of an eclipse here in the studio as well. Although if i do that, i cant read the teleprompter, so that doesnt work. Rosa, what kind of crowds are expected . There . Hows it looking out there . It is definitely an Eclipse Party right now, jim. And one of the things that im trying to figure out is what type of Eclipse Glasses should i be wearing . I dont know exactly. Theres these kinds. Theres these, and this is where the Public Service announcement comes in because you have i have to wear the proper glasses. If youre going to witness this eclipse, if your glasses look like this, and you could put your finger through them. These are not good glasses. Youre not going to protect your eyes these are the real ones. These are the ones that you want. And yes there is a third eye of wisdom here, right at the center where it says times two. Thats because carville, texas will experience to eclipses in six months or was one in october. I want you to take a look at this map from nasa because it really shows that X Marks The Spot two paths of totality. One from october, the one from today, and right at the smack center is carville, texas, which is why a lot of people are saying that we might be feeling things here in Curveball Texas that are not cells in other places. Now, i talked to the mayor of this city she says, theres about a population of about 25,000, but it might grow to up to 100,000 today for the viewing of this eclipse i asked her it mayor . Thats a lot of pressure. The weather might not be great. Do you have any any sense of what the weathers going to be like and if all these revelers are going to be happy, well she says that she tapped into some supernatural powers. Take a listen concerns, of course is the weather. Weather but it would be clear im ray. I checked my magic balls morning sno rate and were going to be able to see it. So what else does that magic ball ill have to look harder Lottery Numbers because if not, i want those two. Thats the secret that i can i can share jim, i borrowed her crystal ball. Im looking through it. I do see some cloud cover right now, but i think wait, let me look at it. Its going to clear were going to be able to see this eclipse and all the people here in clairvaux, texas are going to have a ball back to you all, right rosa it sounds like it yes, absolutely. If you could tell us our future while youre at it, that would be good. Get some tarot cards out. Well do the whole thing. All right. Rosa, looking great as always. Thank you so much. You dont want to learn what im seeing but i dont ive got i dont rosa, youre right our rosa flores. Thank you very much. And what better way to celebrate this afternoons rare experience and to show you love someone to the moon and back hundreds of couples are expected to tie the knot in a mass Wedding Ceremony at a free event, appropriately called a lope at the eclipse. Cnn Stephanie Elam is raul seville, arkansas for the nuptials in a hot air balloon loon. Stephanie, i guess, you know, youre going to win the competition as to whos the closest to the eclipse. If youre up in that hot air balloon watching this thing how big is this serum are going to be today . Yeah, well, i will not be up there during the eclipse because who wants a big balloon in their way, but you know what right now, lets go ahead. Lets go ahead and raise you could be doing here good part of the day we are in hard and we are in a soccer field where some 358 couples are planning to get married here during this elopement. They oh, there we go. Were rising up now. Ecs were going up there. Other balloons. Look at those great day. We thought we were gonna get some rain. But now oh, weve got pretty blue skies, maybe a little high white house. But hey we were still see something here is going to be a futile day and then let me just tell you how things are gonna go. So there is going to be the elopement and then everyones going to stop and were all going to watch this guy. And then after that, the liverpool legends, which you might guess as a beatles cover band, they are going to play. Here comes the sun appropriately and the couples will have their first dance. Thats how its gonna go. Its gonna be a mass wedding. Theres already wedding dresses out here. And for some people, maybe i dont know the balloon doesnt morning things. So some couples live in as youre taking a right, i want to introduce you to joel. Joel here is a pilot has been planned joel, ive been flying for 43 years now for remix. So im safe right now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Take care of you. And so when you heard about this event and coming here, what drew you to be here . Oh, just the clips weve got to see the eclipse. Youve never been eclipse, youve gotta, you gotta go see you on. We drove all the way down from kansas city for this kansas city, im from San Francisco bay area, but were going to were not going to let that go right now but you have named something, this phenomenon, this behind us. Yes, i see rough er, are photojournalist. You can show it. Theres a Big Balloon Shadow back here thats what i call willis the balloon or eclipse. And i think its pretty fitting. So that person right there isnt it is total totality of the balloon are eclipse that weve got going on here where the sun is being blocked by the balloon, had so we call that a balloon or eclipse instead of a, so were having fun here, jim, with what were going to loop. Let me just tell you how many people how many people are here. This is a town of about 30,000. There were about hundred thousand people that are here to take part in the festivities and looks like the clouds are agreeing with that. Were going to have a great show here today of the eclipse. Everyones very excited. Jim im excited for you. Stefani got correspondent, me a little fomo happening here, but im so glad the weather is cleared up. Where you are. A lot of americans are gonna be wondering that very same thing at this moment. All right, the news is capable of being fun. Stephanie elam just proved before stephanie. Thank you so much. Lets go to the cnn weather center. And cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar. Allison, i mean, that is the other big question is where youre at and how much of the eclipse youre going to see. But the other big question thats looming over everything today is the weather, which areas are going to have the best views of this path or from the Path Of Totality yeah, thats right. I mean, well Mother Nature cooperate is really the ultimate question for so many folks and the answer is yes, there are going to be plenty of spots along the path that are really going to be fantastic. Take for example, areas of south eastern missouri, southern illinois, southern indiana, all looking at plenty of sunshine there another good spot is going to be way up into the northeast basically from burlington, vermont all the way up to caribou main, plenty of sunshine there as well . Yes, there are going to be a couple of rough spots here and there basically from Niagara Falls up through rochester, new york, we are going to be looking at some pretty significant cloud cover there. And we also have the potential for those thunderstorms across areas of texas. Now the good news here is it the bulk of the strong to severe thunderstorms should be after the eclipse event is over however, we know a lot of those clouds begin to increase out ahead of the storm. So thats becomes the big question. How much of that increase in cloud cover do we get . And does it time up with the actual eclipse . Now, one other thing to note is after the eclipse is over, a lot of those shower horse and thunderstorms are really going to fire up for a lot of the folks that are leaving, maybe heading back to where they came from, they may be encountering some of these storms, especially large hail damaging winds and the potential for some tornadoes, especially as we go into the evening hours. But all is not lost. Some very good locations to see it, including indianapolis with clouds are decreasing throughout the day fantastic aroh, allison and i see that eclipsethemed outfit that you have on there. Were all getting in the spirit, just like the guys in the crew here in dc with this amazing studio that we have set up here. Its just, its getting me in the spirit as well. Thanks, alice. And really appreciate that were following the eclipse all morning long. Well have live special coverage. Starting at 1 00 p. M. Eastern right here on cnn and streaming on macs and walk war news. 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It must be remembered that the democrats or the radical ones on this position, because they support abortion up to an even beyond the ninth month the concept of having an abortion and the later months and even executed you should after birth are in fact track. Democrats do not believe in execution after birth and the claim that both sides demanded the end of roe versus wade is completely false. In fact, new polling indicates the vast majority of americans, including nearly half of republicans, support a federally guaranteed right to abortion. Lets discuss with Cnn Political Commentator, democratic strategy because Maria Cardona and Cnn Political Commentator and republican strategist alice stewart, alice and maria are the host of the podcast hot mics from left to right. Alice, your reaction to what trump had to say this morning . Look, i think from a political standpoint, moving into the general election, this was the smart move to make because as those numbers indicate, most majority of americans for a bright to Abortion Access and he understands that people that fought to overturn roe v. Wade and people that are prolife fought to take this issue out of the hands of unelected justices and put it in the hands of the states, which is exactly what happened with the dobbs case and what President Trump said. And thats comment was now its an issue. Hands of the states and the states rules are the Law Of The Land each state will be different, but heres the pushback. Hes getting a lot of pushback from the prolife community. The susan b. Anthony association, who was strong prolife, they say seating this issue back to the states basically turns this back to the hands of democrats concerned women for america, whose another im prolife organization say they favor limits on abortion and want the conversation to be held on limits. The campaign has already reached out to many of these prolife groups trying to gauge the field and pushback on this helps so happy on that side of the equation. And maria, i mean this allows floridas sixweek abortion ban essentially to stand. So does that put states like florida in play . I mean, thats this is what democrats. One isnt it . I mean, in a way, well, yes, because the issue will continue to be that this is something that should just be in the hands of women. It should not be in the hands of any anyone whos elected. It should not be in the hands of justices. Do what happened with roe v. Wade was an earthquake and nothing will eclipse the fact that donald trump see what donald trump is, the one who appointed the three judges, conservative judges, who overturned it, lying during they are confirmation hearings, because this was settled Law Of The Land. And thats why you have seen since then, jim, electorally, this has been kryptonite for republicans. Thats why we did so well, dem